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Jazz and Indigenous Artists
Jazz Characteristics
Jazz Genres
Jazz History
Jazz Listening
100
This famous trumpet player, nicknamed "Satchmo," also scatted and sang with a rough, gravely voice.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
When a number of musicians solo together.
What is collective improvisation?
100

This Jazz Style has faster tempos, detailed melodies, and more complex ways of approaching improvising

What is Bepop?

100
Jazz originated in this city.
What is New Orleans?
100

  • Form: 32-bar song form (A-A-B-A), repeated across 3 choruses

  • Tempo & Key: Moderate 4/4, D minor

What is Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie?

200
This famous trumpet player had puffy cheeks when he played fast-paced bebop jazz on his bent trumpet.
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
200
The bass technique of producing a steady beat while playing and connecting notes of a chord progression.
What is a walking bass?
200
Term often synonymous with cool jazz.
What is West coast jazz?
200
During this decade, swing was the most popular form of music in the United States.
What is the 1930's?
200

MEDIUM: Jazz big band (trumpets, trombones, saxophones, piano, guitar, bass, drums); soloists: Duke Ellington (piano), Ray Nance (trumpet)

TEMPO: Moderate; 4/4 meter

What is Take the A Train, by Billy Strayhorn?

300

This Canadian pianist was born in Hungary and studied with Oscar Peterson

Who is Robi Botos?

300
A brief pause in a band’s playing to feature a soloist or soloists; the beat continues, but is implied.
What is a break?
300
This type of jazz, popular in the early 1900's, features a march-like accompaniment and a syncopated melody.
What is ragtime?
300

African musical tradition brought over via the slave trade, vocal inflections, and the use of blue notes.

What is blues?

300

Distinctly syncopated (accented) A section and its 3rd section includes:

  • First theme returning with sweeping scales in upper octaves

  • Final fortissimo chord

What is Gershwin's Piano Prelude No.1?

400

This clarinettist played a major role in popularizing jazz in the 1930s and 1940s

Who is Benny Goodman?

400
This rhythm puts emphasis on a weak beat or a beat that is usually not emphasized.
What is syncopation?
400

This style combined jazz with rock, funk, and electronic instruments, associated with bands such as Weather Report.

What is fusion jazz?

400
African technique slaves used that inspired jazz.
What is call and response?
400

This piece features throatsinging, quiet whispers and full on screams.


What is Retribution by Tanya Tagaq?

500

He was a legendary American composer, pianist, and bandleader

Who is Duke Ellington?

500
A loud, violent gliss rising to the beginning of a note.
What is a rip?
500

This style of Jazz is built on the bebop tradition but incorporated influences from blues and gospel.

What is Hard Bop?

500

The city of New Orleans introduced the concept of this a repeated section of music that allows for improvised solos.

What is "chorus" in jazz?

500

This music mixes classical and Indigenous styles

You can hear piano, strings, and recordings of Wolastoq singers


What is Jeremy Dutcher's “Mehcinut” ?